People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.

A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.

We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.

When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century.

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

If you're an actor, a hard thing is to stick around, to stay viable. I try to do that by taking the opportunity to do something different every once in awhile.

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

Wherever there is smoke there is a good smoke machine.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.